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GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
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their way into the oe should be raised to a much 
igher level ea filling in the trench, so that the 
us roots emitted „М them may be within the 
dou 
trees have as compare 
long standing in the same situation. 
ма: Pre TERME 
a a tree begin to fail t hrough e 
al 
re remark that the reverse of 
as in some soils the very interference that 
of a poore 
is the case 
Brings pet fertility, would, in others 
tree, and, where this is p attended to, the soil must 
be bad indeed that will not, when assisted, grow 
both Apples an j ы T abundance Md of fi 
quality. Z. 5S. 
RARE CONIFERS. 
Pinus aristata, Eng.— There seems little doubt 
that the first — man who observed кэ — 
was Captain Gunnison. The reader will remember 
that cione was one of the United St bites oiii 
to whom was entrusted the survey of the best route 
for the Pacific Railway, and that he and a portion of 
his party were massacred by the Ute Indians at a few 
days’ journey distance from Salt Lake City. He had 
made his way, in 1853, over the Colorado Mountains, 
10,000 feet. t was 
that he met with this P ility of procuring 
timber for railway ida Й was Ya ыы factor 
not to be overlooked among the advantages and dis- 
advantages of any route for a railway, consequently 
Fic, I17.—PINUS ARISTATA, 
— 
"rin most likely have ihe e effect, by 
throwing the trees into a state eakness and de- 
extremes interference is necessary 
The thing, then, is to check unruly growth and pre- 
e happy medium Ami жуз may be pro- 
duced instead of super luo eaches and 
pa riot, on account of the 
о be prod 
d that is supplying the 
ould be diligently se 
either enti 
in foot or two of the I 
attempting tify matters by pruning the top, as 
the removal of one strong shoot is sure to be followed 
by another again and again, the cause that leads 
0 their formation is checked also. 
Many of your readers may not be so brace wx 
Cumstanced in the matter of soils as to render 
ne y, and i Бнр some і ў 
not how to check a г cy of gr in suc 
: roduce suf- 
ficient vigour to eep them in healt d support a 
fair crop of fruit. To such as 
is the r „as in their case plenty of hungry 
Toots are sure to be formed, and all the is some- 
to lay ho Food in quantity may 
the Colorado route, was singularly defective in this 
important ee ee гә says :— 
st from the State of Missouri timber 
s, and 
a railroad, therefore rem nt 
to their occupation, a Ag ae amount of timber will 
be no lon opa 0 found upon t From че junction of 
s west to the foot of the isto 
of 5oo m miles, no timber whatever exists 
n the superstructure o face ia I 
"» — y ties == of miles of p 'espe- 
cal i if и wich hyadreds great ee of 1851 mi pe and 
left standing be жем left to decay. 
HE valley of San Luis but little timber 
seen in the „Жесси апа попе in the {valley 
uld i ildi From Fort 
in 
— will, however, 
supply ^ price Pine. In the 
moun дар ма abo Е. Соо heto miles from Fort 
e is the one timber (the Quaking Asp 
being only suitable "for fuel after it has been seasoned), 
and it is generally small, but, it is peo sufficient for 
plated. From the vicinity of this 
ier Li 
draw Pigh n on 
numerous airean av SERT Grand ae from М 
mountains above, and for a short distance below, the 
. And again, = the mountains 
n the Wahsatch 
pum asto mak 
render the substitution of stone necessary wherever it 
ш Pine idee spoken of must, we ль тешен be 
esent species; for, in rofessors Torr rrey and 
otanical Report on a Plants Menos by 
i in this district, we find 
which 
a Pine, which a 
seription, = is no doubt the same as that now named 
arista! 117). 
Ast ‘at a е Spruce, we may just digress for an instant 
to say that it is certain ly not Abies ird which is 
a variety of Douglasii, but, in all probabi x dem 
concolor, which comes from tha 
corresponds with vem e Ар given in tiras 
. Pin. t..47; a s 
ass (3 38° | N. lat. —A ha ndsome tree, growing 
spec im ens are without cones. The leaves are from 
1} £o nearly 2 fecu long, very slender, and glaucous 
on ~ cad 
at first supposed to be the same as 
ре; детей tr Colonel remont in 1843 and i xd so 
ut 
a f = t. 11 
cones, and in ignorance that im were two some- 
hat five growing at 
no a 
er species Fremont's 's may be, all disp 
unnison’ s is removed by Todes "Englemann, who 
rought back from his 
as n m t species was described, 
however. Nine later, viz., in 1861 and 1862, 
Dr, Parry again discovered and collect same 
species on alpine heights between 0200 and 11,800 or 
mountains 
12,000 feet high on Pike's Peak and the high monn 
escri 
snowy e, and it was d 
from their materials by Pro 5 кюн калу їп 1863 
i e Transactions of the Ac adem 
i 
is, vol 61 the 
technical description the species we refer the 
reader to Professor Engelmann's paper, many who 
ay not have ready access to it may be glad to see a 
e of its details, taken from the specime 
lately sent by M. Roezl. Very shortly after 
he publication of Professor Engelmann's description, 
a f imens reached this country (if we mistake 
not in 1863), rem is t me of 
them at least were ae at Stevens’, so that 
of years old growing in this 
ntry, Mr. Gord чыр observe, in the new edition 
of his Pinetum, places its introduction later (in 1870), 
э. we therefore do not pee үкө but perhaps 
e of our readers wed able to spea ak T better 
au LM well Jen айан information as to 
the p progress the tree has dei in this co Li iy e 
ha e purpose of this notice 
among friends likely to ewe = without success. 
lem agr кю regarding its growth is that it 
t in the Maler eleva leraian, never 
feet ower 
inanirv 
ridges it becomes a straggling, pro: 
creeping 
Pinus flexilis, Andrew Murray. 
GREENHOUSE PLANTS.—XXVI. - 
THEIR CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT. 
handsome bright 
t 
SSIA CORYMBOSA, — This 
cultivation in gree 
growth and a bes stale. subject for beginners in 
